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actual derivation is otherwise. In the 'Il)is List' Pyrr/iula is given by- 

 Mr. Wharton as Latinized direct from itujpnXas, a red bird in Aristotle, 

 from iru^pos, and perhaps ovpa, tail, as some texts rcfid irvppotjpas. On this 

 understanding the word is Pyrrhu'la, not Pyrh-kula. 



No. 192. Passer. We have nothing to detract from what we said of 

 this word, but will insert here what the 'Ibis List' gives : "The original 

 form was probably *sj)arff-ter (as sparsus = *spargtns; rs then becomes 

 55, cf. russitm for rursuni), fr©m the root of <nropYi'\os = some bird in 

 Aristophanes (yir'. 300), and of o-jrap^oo) ^ I swell, meaning 'the wan- 

 ton bird'; akin to our 'sparrow.'" If Professor Merriam agrees to this, 

 it bears out our idea and suggestion, that the bird was named for its sala- 

 city, though we did not know enough about the word to prove it. 



No. 209. Horncmauni. The 'Zoologist' reviewer supplies the full 

 name; Jens Wilken Hornemann, *i77o-ti84i. He was the author of a 

 'Haandbog for Fugleelskere.' 



No. 227. Savana. The London 'Athenaeum' reviewer points out 

 that the actual pronunciation of the Spanish sabana is undoubtedly with 

 the accent on the first syllable. This we did not know; but we correctly 

 accented savana as the Latinized form of the word. 



No. 326. Oriole. "Dr. Coues does not seem very clear about the 

 origin of the name oriole, although it has been traced by Littre directly, 

 along with the French form of the same word, Lorioi, from the Latin 

 aureolns, golden." ('Zoologist' reviewer.) 



No. 329. Parisorum. The 'Ibis' reviewer catches us here at great fault. 

 We might have known that the bii-d was dedicated to the brothers Paris, 

 and not to the people of the city of that name. 



No- 333- ^uiscalics. We discussed this word at some length, coming 

 to no satisfactory or final conclusion. The London 'Athenseum' re- 

 viewer suggests a probable etymon in inquiring. Is there no Mexican 

 Indian word like qiiezcal which could be Latinized into ^uiscalus? 

 Compare also quezal or qiiesal, the native name of the Paradise Trogon. 



No. 359. Perisoreus. We advanced a purely conjectural derivation of 

 this word, and our guess in this case is wide of the mai-k. According to 

 Agassiz's 'Nomenclator,' to w-hich the 'Zoologist' review^er refers us, the 

 word is derived from irspio-wpevo), accu7nulo, I heap up all around. "What 

 the application of the name may be we are not sufficiently acquainted 

 with the bird's habits to disclose, but it clearly has to do with the bird's 

 affinity to the magpie, and the well-known tendency to hoarding which 

 that bird has." But we were after all on the right scent when we noted 

 o-opo's (i. e. crwpvs, cf. crtopevw) ; and did more than "indulge in a little imagi- 

 nation about it." 



No. 416. Atthis. The 'Zoologist' reviewer very properly administers 

 a rebuke to the lack of gallantry in forgetting, or omitting to state, that 

 Atthis is the name of the beautiful maiden who was the beloved of the 

 poetess Sappho. 



No. 462. Bubo. In connection with our conjectured relations of this 

 word, see the 'Ibis List,' p. 90. Mr. Wharton concurs with us to compare 



